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TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Crews responded to a fire at the former Mount Vernon Elementary School on Friday, according to Toledo Fire & Rescue Department officials. A 911 call came from a neighbor around 6:30 p.m. reporting the fire at the building, located at 825 N. Byrne Road, said Sheldon Collins, TFRD public information

A South Toledo man who offered another man $4,000 to kill his former girlfriend entered an Alford plea Friday afternoon to attempted murder. Timothy Murphy, 48, of the 600 block of Geneva Street, entered the pleas to five total charges in Lucas County Common Pleas Court in exchange for an agreed-upon 10-year prison ter

Two stern letters, one from the county prosecutor and the other from a Common Pleas court judge, are laying out why budget cut requests are unreasonable.

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Two teens have been arrested in connection to a series of arsons in the South Toledo neighborhood. Police responded to a fire on the 1100 block of Monterey Ct. Wednesday morning. The building was set on fire the previous day as well. Through witnesses and video...

Toledo Fire and Rescue crews have almost entirely extinguished a three-alarm fire at Brent Industries following explosions that killed two employees, an official confirmed Friday. Firefighters have remained at the scene in the 2900 block of South Avenue, near South Byrne Road, since the early Tuesday morning incident,

A second man has been arrested for a fatal shooting early this month at a South Toledo bar. Marcus Hughes, 44, of the 3600 block of Homewood Avenue, is charged with complicity to murder for the Aug. 1 death of Devan Calbert, 32, who was shot at the Recovery Room bar in the 2600 block of Airport Highway. Members of the

WATERVILLE, Ohio (WTVG) - The Roche de Boeuf bridge has been a defining part of the Waterville landscape for more than a century, and its future has been the subject of debate in recent years. A grassroots effort helped preserve the span. Waterville assumed ownership of the bridge in June,...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - For Ray Benson, Toledo Estates was supposed to be a place for his family to settle down. Eight months later, he’s wondering if it’s safe enough to raise his children. Benson has lived at Toledo Estates for almost a year. He said when he...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Local pastors are joining forces to raise funds for Connecting Kids to Meals, an organization that feeds children 18 and under, free of charge, across the community. Local faith leaders call the organization a vital community asset. “We want to give back to them during this...

The Rev. Donald L. Perryman has been helping people “at the corner of poverty and pain” since 1997, he said Thursday. For the longtime pastor, that means working in neighborhoods that are “ground zero” for issues affecting minorities and people with low income, he said. “I probably got involved in this type of work fro